GeForce Experience is supposed to automatically setup your video setting in games for you. I seem to remember using something similar a few years ago that did not work well at all. May have been a earlier version of the same product or it may have been a ATI application since I have had a few ATI cards in the past. My question is does it work now or am I going to end up with subpar settings using the GeForce Experience?

It's worthless - it only supports certain games and it assumes (by default) that everyone wants a 40 fps average... Just get FRAPS and use it to see if you need to manually decrease your settings from the "max" in-game values.

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I'm in Waco's boat. Don't even track FPS/frame times and lower settings until things are acceptable for you.

I could see some advantage to auto-detecting and tweaking settings with something like GeForce Experience, but that's not so much to get an ideal number and has more to do with tweaking settings to your card's advantage.

I seem to remember using something similar a few years ago that did not work well at all.

I vaguely remember something like this a LOOOONG time ago. I also remember GLSetup, which was supposed to make sure you had the correct and compatible OpenGL driver for your graphics card, but I don't think that's what we're thinking of.

Anyway, I hate "automatic" things in general, and this sort of thing is no exception. I wrote a very long and nasty e-mail to Nvidia about Geforce Experience. Sure, you don't HAVE to use it now, but who knows how long before it becomes mandatory?

Between this and the issues I'm having with my GTXTITAN, I'm pretty angry with them right now. (‾ε‾“)

I seem to remember using something similar a few years ago that did not work well at all.

I vaguely remember something like this a LOOOONG time ago. I also remember GLSetup, which was supposed to make sure you had the correct and compatible OpenGL driver for your graphics card, but I don't think that's what we're thinking of.

Anyway, I hate "automatic" things in general, and this sort of thing is no exception. I wrote a very long and nasty e-mail to Nvidia about Geforce Experience. Sure, you don't HAVE to use it now, but who knows how long before it becomes mandatory?

Between this and the issues I'm having with my GTXTITAN, I'm pretty angry with them right now. (‾ε‾“)

TBH, the Geforce Experience app is not aimed at Titan users, I imagine.

FPS is dependent on the user and the game. In Torchlight 2, I get 60FPS and it feels pretty nice. In StarCraft 2, the in-game meter tells me I have 17FPS (my CPU has poor single-threaded IPC), however 17FPS in StarCraft 2 is fine with me. But as soon as one of the in-game cinematics comes on, I need more than 17FPS.

I am running the GTX 680 and have been running on max setting for everything with no issues so far. Skyrim, Borderlands 2, Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age Origins and DA 2, all three Deus Ex game, etc. No issues with any of them at all.

Only time I had a issue was when I overclocked the CPU, i5-3570k, and the GPU. Thing got unstable and locked up a few times. No issues since I went back to base clock speeds.

So no I do not need some application setting my video setting for me only to have them set for way lower than my machine can run.

You can install it and NOT use it to actually change your game settings. I use it to automatically download new driver updates and to see what settings they recommend. A few settings I tweaked (on my own) in Far Cry 3 matched what they suggested. (660 Ti).